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OR DREAMS 

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The New Revelation. 



I suppose every reader of this work, wishes to know 
something of the man who received these revelations. I 
do not propose to write my life in full. If I should, it 
would be more remarkable than most works of fiction. I 
should rather be excused from writing this book. The 
reason will appear only too plain before reading to the 
end. I believe the writing of this work to be a solemn 
duty enjoined upon me, and on the faithful accomplishment 
of which I feel depends my eternal happiness. It has 
taken me a long time to conquer my pride and bring my 
courage up to the sticking point. I think I should not 
have published this work, but left it for others after my 
death, if it was not that I feel I have a duty to perform 
in its distribution. My friends and relatives oppose my 
writing this work, and I do not feel competent to clothe 
the subject in proper language. I also feel diffident in 
exposing myself to the many thousands that know me in 
my profession. Probably I have a little pride that needs 
to be humiliated. The weight of this duty has been very 
heavy upon me for years. Days and nights I hear the 
voice "Write, write ; give it to the world." I could have 
employed some one to write in fine, literary style, but 
that would not do for many reasons. It is a duty that I 
must perform myself. No one can come between me and 
God and take the responsibility from my shoulders. I 



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must write with no mortal's help, and express my own 
ideas in my own words. If I did not, it would not be 
my work at all. My kind readers, please have a little 
forbearance with my rough, blunt and unlettered style of 
writing.- Kead carefully, and ponder well. I think you 
will find pure gold, although it may be in the rough. Of 
one thing you may rest assured — every line is the truth, 
the whole truth, and nothing .but the truth, as far as I 
am concerned, to the best of my memory and ability to 
write it. 

I will now give you a brief sketch or a few outlines 
of my life: 

I was born in the year 1824, July 28th, in the State 
of New Hampshire, county of Merrimac, town of Aliens- 
town ; and the neighborhood where I was born and resided 
until I was eighteen years old, was called a rough and 
tough soil— the most of anything we had in abundance 
was rocks and stone. The inhabitants were healthy. My 
grandfather, my father and myself were born in the same 
town and neighborhood. I was the eldest of seven chil- 
dren, three sons and four daughters. I also have the same 
number of children, with the same number of sons and 
daughters, and all living. My great grandfather lived to 
the age of ninety-four, and he was a praying man. Let 
me state here that I have the utmost faith and confidence 
in prayer, and the older I grow, the more proof I have 
of its wonderful power ; and if I know that a man prays, I 
admire that man. I can't help it, although he may not be 
a perfect man in all his dealings. My grandparents, on 
my father's side, were both praying people, living to a good 
old age, over eighty. My grandparents, on my mother's 
side, Jonathan Philbrick, who married a Miss Wells, both 
were originally from Rye, N. H. They were both pray- 
ing people. They lived to a good old age. Grandfather 



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was near ninety-two when he died. Many a time when I 
was a boy have .1 heard all four of my grandparents raise 
their voices in earnest prayer in my behalf, and I believe 
that I am } r et reaping the benefit of those prayers. My 
dear sainted mother was a praying woman from niy ear- 
liest recollection, and a Christian in every sense of the 
word. How often I remember her kneeling by my side 
as I said my little prayer before retiring for the night, 
and how many times I have been awakened in the morn- 
ing by my mother's prayers, as she knelt by my bed in 
earnest prayer for her son. I believed in those prayers 
then, and I believe in them now ; that I have been reap- 
ing a rich harvest all along- life's iournev in answer to 
those prayers. My father made a profession of religion, 
when I was about ten years old, and always after that was 
a praying man. About the same time I made a profession 
of religion, and was baptised. 

My forefathers, as far back as I have any knowledge, 
were tillers of the soil — an honorable and healthy employ- 
ment. I wish that more persons followed it. 

My father and mother worked very hard. It was 
part of their religious duty to teach their children habits 
of industry and application. I remember well of pulling 
weeds in my father's row, when he was weeding his corn, 
before I was strong enough to use a hoe ; and after that my 
father kept me in the field with him, and except a few weeks in 
winter, when I attended the district scliool, and then I had 
to take care of the barn and prepare the wood for the 
old-fashioned fire-place. My opportunity for education was 
very limited, and was confined mostly to reading, spelling, 
writing and arithmetic. It was thus I passed most of my 
time, until I was eighteen years old. Then I left home 
for the great city of Boston, to better my condition in 
life, or to seek my fortune, as we bovs use to term it. 



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1 left on foot. I suppose that most young men feel un- 
happy when leaving a good home for the first time, but 
let me tell you how I felt, and the incidents that happened 
that have helped to guide me ever since. I felt very un- 
happy to leave my parents, relatives and friends. All 
were very dear to me. When the time came for me to 
part from them, and my mother came with her gift, the 
little testament and her blessing, and kissed me good-bye 
with tears on her cheeks, it was the saddest moment of 
my life. It seemed for the moment that I could not 
leave her — that I must give it up. But I had made up 
my mind to go, so I kept up as brave a heart as I could, 
and hurried away as quick as possible. I was crying as 
I walked along, until I arrived at the top of a hill some 
half a mile from home. From the top of this hill I turned 
to take a good look at the pleasant old house and all its 
surroundings. I felt that I could not go on, for a few more 
steps would carry me out of sight of my happy home, and 
that would be the last look upon all that- my heart held 
dear. In my grief I fell upon my knees and prayed to 
my God for help, and strength, and wisdom, and to be 
kept from temptation, sin and all harm, and I made a 
promise, if He would guide and prosper me, I would 
serve him all the days of my life. When I arose from my 
prayer I was a boy no longer. I felt the strength and reso- 
lution of a man. I felt that God had heard my prayer, and 
sent sweet answers of peace. I felt assured that God Avould 
guide, direct and care for me, and that I should return to 
make that home more bright and comfortable for the dear 
loved ones that I had just left. I would now state that I 
own the old home, and that it is as dear to me as ever. I 
walked briskly on my journey, singing instead of crying, 
tilled with happiness instead of sorrow. In time I arrived 
in Boston. I have not time to state in detail how kind Pro- 



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vidence directed me, step by step. But suffice it to say that 
I found employment at once, and did well. 

Here I will state a circumstance, shoAving the care of 
kind Providence. I took a lodging-room with another 
young man, where we could partly board ourselves and live 
cheaply. My room-mate was taken sick, and I took care 
of him for a number of days, until he became very sick, 
and at last he consented to have the doctor. When the 
doctor came, he said that my friend had a very bad case 
of small-pox. I was perfectly well, did not even have the 
varioloid. I have been remarkably blessed with good 
health. In all my travels North, South, East and West, 
I have not had a sick day, or even headache, or met with an 
accident. I was pleased with my work and employer in Bos- 
ton. Still I was uneasy ; wages were small and advance- 
ment very slow and uncertain. I made up my mind for a 
change, and invested my little capital in Yankee notions. 
And one cold winter day (21st of January) I sailed from 
Boston in a barque for Bermuda Hundreds, James River, 
Virginia. The barque was in ballast, and we had a very rough 
passage, but arrived safely in fourteen days. I went tramping 
over Virginia from one plantation to another ; first to Rich- 
mond, then to Lynchburg, then across the Blue Ridge into 
the Virginia Valley, then on to Washington, D. C. ; from 
Washington to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, 
and home. I had looked sharp, but had not found my 
fortune. But I had been industrious and saving, and 
brought home more money than I carried away. I found 
my parents and all well, and pleased at my return. I had 
been to the great cities, and had seen the big men at 
Washington, and been quite a traveler in a slave state, 
going from house to house for three months, which gave 
me quite an insight into the institution of slavery. My 
father and most of our neighbors being Jacksonian dem- 



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ocrats, they never tired hearing me re-count the many kind 
hospitalities that I received from the people of old Virginia. 
In the Fall I started South again, this time for Charleston, 
S. C. I went from Charleston to Columbia. I canvassed 
the state pretty thoroughly, going *on foot from one court- 
house to another. In time I arrived at the town of 
Greenville, S. C. What do you suppose I saw upon en- 
tering the hotel? The very business that I had been 
hunting and praying for ever since I first left my native 
town, away among the granite hills of the state of New 
Hampshire. "Well," I thought, "I have found it at last, 
and it's mine !" How truly thankful I was to my Heavenly 
rather! I felt that He had guided me over land and 
water away here among the mountains to this out-of-the- 
way place. I had- found the pearl where I least expected 
it. What was it that God had directed me to? It was 
not much, that one in a thousand would have thought much 
of, or hardly noticed. But it was something ne\\ r to me. 

1 said, "There is money iii it." I realized that it was a gift 
from God in answer to the prayer on the hill the first time 
I left home. It was the business of Chiropodist, that I 
had been directed to. A man by the name of James 
McMellon was operating on a gentleman's foot, for the 
relief of a corn, as I entered the hotel. That would be 
nothing uncommon now. But it was new to me ; and it 
made a very strong and favorable impression upon me 
when I saw the doctor receive $5.00 for his fee for 
only a few minutes' work. I watched the operation and 
made up my mind that that was the business for me. 
I made the acquaintance of Dr. MeMcllon very readily. 
When I told him that my grandmother was a Scotch- 
woman, that was introduction enough — we were soon fast 
friends. He made money easy and spent it freely. We 
traveled together, and he took pleasure in teaching me all 



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he could about his business, without recompense or reward. 
I soon began to operate, and was successful from the first. 
I soon bought me a horse and traveled in a number of 
different Southern States for twenty-two months, spending 
the "season" at the White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, where 
at that time congregated the Avealth and fashion of the 
South, and the first men from all parts of the Union. 
There I was well patronized and highly recommended. I 
practiced in Washington, D. C. ; there I was well received. 
I tried to do an honest business, and did not promise more 
than I could perform. And that is the rule I have adopted 
through life, and find that it pays. 

After an absence of nearly two years, I returned to 
my native town, and found my parents and all well and 
happy to see me after so long an absence. And I was 
quite a puzzle to my relatives and neighbors, for I wore 
fine cloth and had gold in my pockets. I had traveled 
more extensively in the Southern States, and received the 
same hospitalities wherever I had traveled, that I had in 
old Virginia. 

I afterwards practiced my profession in the principal 
cities and villages of New England, and parts of Canada. 
In 1846 I married the girl I loved in my boyhood. Soon 
after my marriage, I opened rooms in Boston and settled 
down to my profession. I was very successful. Business 
increased rapidly. I soon had more than I could attend to. 
I had to have assistants, so I taught my brothers, cousins, 
nephews, relatives and friends — over twenty operators. 
And the business goes on increasing, so in the year 1878 the 
receipts were over $20,000 in Boston .alone. And this 
large business all sprung from the little village of Greenville, 

s. c. 

Here I wish to say a few words in regard to the death 
of my father. It is in connection with the fulfillment of 



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a dream. I suppose that most persons have dreams, that 
are more or less remarkable. I have had very many, 
enough, if they were all written out, to till a little book. 
And another thing I have had happen to me all my 
life, more or less, is in hearing my name called 
(Nehemiah) when I was awake, spoken aloud as though 
some one called me in the same room, or near by. In this 
dream, which was a number of years before my father's 
death, I thought some one spoke, saying, " Nehemiah, 
your father is to die in June." After that, every June 
as long as my father lived I would go to see him, and 
1 emam with him as long as I could conveniently. The 
last time I visited him he was not feeling very well, but was 
-about his farm, as usual. On the morning of the 21st day 
of June he died. It was his habit to pray before retiring 
for the night. The night before his death he prayed, as 
was his usual custom, and I thought that he prayed more 
earnestly, and used more beautiful language, than I had 
ever heard him use before. I was with him in his last 
prayer. After prayer, he said he had not felt so well for 
six weeks. But, he says, "My son, my days are num- 
bered ; 1 am about to die, and leave you." I told him that 
I did not think so ; that he was stronger that very min- 
ute than I was ; that he was going to live to be more 
than a hundred years old. He said that he had a. feeling — 
a kind of presentiment — that death was very near. I 
talked with him about death-^if he had any fear. He 
said no ; he felt as though he was going home, and that 
he longed to go. During the night he had two or three 
distressed spells for breath ; was up and down a number of 
times, and did not sleep much. I was with him most of 
the night. In the early morning he was out walking 
about the door-vard. When he came in, he felt better. 



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and said he would lie down and take a little rest. I saw 
him comfortably in bed, with a number of pillows under his 
head, and left him for a moment to put some wood into 
the stove. I heard him speak, and Avent to him quickly. 
I fcamd him sitting" upon the side of the bed. He spoke, 
and said, "I am going." I put my arm around him, and 
he leaned his head against me, and whispered, " Good- 
bye." He breathed so very easy and without making the 
least noise, or moving a muscle, that I could perceive. 

It was thus that a good man passed away. What 
consolation — how beautiful to the last ! He is going home ; 
the mind so clear, calm, and resigned. In the very last 
breath, comes in a whisper, the sweet, but sad good-bye. 
How happy to die in the Lord, what a comfort to our 
friends when we die in our right minds ! 

To my dear, beloved mother, I feel that I am more 
indebted than I am to all others for my habits of indus- 
try, my success in life, and my religious principles. Such 
counsels, such prayers, few sons were ever blessed with. 
I describe these religious principles of my ancestors, be- 
cause I love to think and talk about those happy days, 
and the loved ones that have gone ; also, to give my kind 
readers a partial knowledge of my religious inheritance 
and early training. I think I hear you say that you are 
getting impatient — " Give us the dreams." 

I did not expect to give you quite so minute an ac- 
count of my business affairs, but I feel that you have a 
right to know all about me, from whence I came, and how 
I came. 

And perchance I may encourage some disappointed 
and discouraged young men to put their faith and trust 
in our Heavenly Father, and try and try again ; or help 
to o-ive strength and confidence to some dear mother to 
carry her children in the arms of faith, and as she takes 



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firm hold of the promises of God, and pleads fervently 
until she is assured of the blessing for those she loves 
better than she does her own life. Oh ! mothers let your 
children know that you love them ; lead them to Christ 
in prayer while they are young ; also teach them habits 
of industry, application, and home government. How 
many incidents I could relate to encourage poor, tired 
mothers to persevere with faith in prayer and kind advice. 



THE DREAMS . 

In calling this book "The New Revelation," I do 
not intend to convey the impression that this was revealed 
to me because I was a better man, or a better Christian, 
than thousands of others. I have tried to account for 
these impressions in many ways. I believe that the great 
first cause of these revelations was prayer. For many 
years my daily and earnest prayer was that God would 
send His holy messenger to me in my dreams, as he did 
to his servants in olden times, that I might have more 
knowledge of what most concerned me in this life ; and 
that he would make it more plain to my understanding what 
most concerned me after death. So I believe these, 
dreams, impressions, or revelations, were in answer to my 
daily prayer. But I believe there is generally work in 
connection with prayer — our minds and bodies should 
work together for the fulfillment of our prayer. I believe 
that there was a cause, or channel of causes, in harmony 
with God's laws in answer to prayer, that produced the 



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effect. I believe in cause and effect, and that there is no 
effect in nature or man without a cause ; but that man 
has not always the knowledge or. power to trace the cause 
to the effect. It may be like the seed or germ that has 
lain dormant for ages, but as soon as it received light, 
heat, and moisture, soil and culture, in right proportions, 
it takes life and brings forth fruit in perfection. 

I believe that there was work in connection with 
prayer that caused the result. I frequently hear smart 
men question the miracles of the Prophets and the Apostles. 
And they think they reason well when they say, "Is not 
God the same, is not nature the same, is not man the 
same? Then why not have the miracles ?" We say all is 
apparently the same, but man, is changed a very little ; 
he has advanced to a higher plane ; his mind runs in a dif- 
ferent channel, which causes him to pray and think differ- 
ently. The causes for those miracles do not exist ; if 
they did we should have them. • We believe that all miracles 
were in accordance with certain laws or certain causes. 
Although done by Almighty power, we believe they were 
done by certain rules and were the effect of certain 
causes. If we were able to trace those causes and under- 
stand them, the miracles would appear simple. Many in- 
ventions are almost as mysterious as miracles, until we 
become familiar with them and have a knowledge of them. 
The mind of man is constantly reaching out after knowl- 
edge, and as it is led an<J worked in different channels, 
it shows different results. Every generation leaves its 
mark and is distinguished from the one that has gone be- 
fore it ; and so it will be as long as the soul or part of 
God occupies its place in the brain of man. If I had 
been a reader of books, or attended lectures, or given my 
mind to study, or thought about the soul, then I could 
have accounted for these impressions in a measure. Prob- 



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ably there is not one man in five thousand that can read 
at all, but what has done more of it than I have. I am 
no reader of books ; I have not as yet read Darwin or 
Swedenborg, and I have not read Dickens, Shakespeare, 
or any work on spiritualism or any other "ism." I have 
given my time and mind to my profession. From six or seven 
o'clock in the morning to nine or ten at night, I w T as in 
my office — work, work, work. Honest labor ! It has been 
my delight and recreation ; there is a pleasure and hap- 
piness in it that only a few of the very devoted ever ex- 
perience. To be sure I read my Bible occasionally, but I 
did not well understand it, until after I had the dreams — 
that is, many passages that I could not understand before, 
now appear plain and reasonable. 

Now I will relate Dream Number One, its connections, 
etc. : About 10 o'clock a. m., one day in the month of 
March, 1870, while I was waiting upon a patron, I was at- 
tacked very suddenly, without any warning of cold or 
sign of being out of my usual good health, with a con- 
traction of the right side of my neck and face. I bathed 
the parts affected with stimulating liniment and was soon 
relieved. But I soon began to grow sick at my stomach : 
I took a good dose of ginger, and started for my resi- 
dence, about three miles from my office. Before I ar- 
rived home, I was quite sick, and my breathing so diffi- 
cult that I thought I had the diphtheria. My wife sent for a 
physician, who, upon examining my throat, said that I 
had the erysipelas. This was something new for me, being 
the first attack I ever had, and none of my family ever 
had it within the recollection of my parents. I had 
been unwell only once within my memory and that was 
more than twenty years before. Here let me state that I 
never drank any kind of alcohol or malt liquor for nearly 
six years previous, and had not used tobacco for more 



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than twenty years, and very seldom drank tea or coffee. 
My throat was relieved in a few hours so that I breathed 
easily, but as the inflammation and swelling extended to 
my face and head, my sufferings were beyond description, 
especially through my temples. I was attacked Tuesday, 
and was out of my head by times until Saturday, my face 
swelling beyond recognition. The SAvelling extended all 
over my face, head, neck, and shoulders, down each 
arm near the elbow, and dowii the chest below the 
pit of the stomach ; e} r es closed and hearing mostly gone. 
By Saturday the swelling was at its height, and I was 
free from pain. But now the doctor was more anxious 
and said I was a very sick man, and that my life hung 
upon a slender thread. But in about a week after I 
was attacked puss began to gather under each eye, so 
that the doctor used his lance ; then he said probably I 
should get well. 

It was on Sunday that my mind began to grow clear 
and active ; the brain seemed to be turned up to a 
lightning activity. Between Saturday night and Tuesday 
night was the time that I had these impressions. From 
and after Saturday night, I think I was as sane as I ever 
was in my life. I knew all my friends who called to see 
me, and gave proper directions about my business ; and 
was able to help myself to my medicine at regular intervals. 
Many things that I did not understand before seemed very 
plain and reasonable ; and all came to me without much 
effort. If I had employed some one to have written out 
my thoughts at the time, with all the dreams in full, this 
would have been a more remarkable work ; the details 
would have been much fuller. There was much that I 
could not remember after going to sleep ; and now, after 
the lapse of so many years, I only give what is the most 
indellibly impressed upon my mind. I believe that the 



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brain was brought to that condition that these impressions 
could be made ; and I believe that these impressions are 
fbr the benefit of the human family for all time. It was 
at this time when I went to sleep, that I seemed to have 
the power of leaving my body and go where I choose — 
to my place of business, visiting my friends, and conversing 
with the spirits of the dead — and retaining in my memory 
after I awoke my conversation, and what I saAv. I also 
saw and conversed with the spirits of those that were 
living, when I was as wide awake as I ever was, but 
those persons were asleep at the time, miles away, and 
were only present in spirit, but I recognized them. 

Sunday night I was left alone a short time. I wished 
for a drink of cool water, fresh from the faucet. I 
thought I would wait upon myself ; I arose and dressed, 
and went down two nights of stairs in the dark to my 
kitchen ; all was dark, but the first step I took into the 
kitchen the room was lighted as bright as day, and every- 
thing in the room was visible. Directly, in front of the 
sink, where I was going to draw the wa'ter, stood three 
women in appearance ; they all smiled, and one spoke 
and said, ''You have conquered!" I stepped along with- 
out any hesitation to draw the water, with no more fear 
than I should if there had been three of my own family 
in the room. I believe that there Avas a spiritual presence 
in the room of the three persons, and that my brain was 
in that condition to recognize their presence. Before I 
arrived at the sink the room was dark as a pocket. I 
drew the water, took a big drink and returned, as though 
1 had not seen or heard anything. 

You may think from my description of these spiritual 
visions that I am a believer in modern Spiritualism, but 
I am not ; far from it ! I believe in animal magnetism 
to a certain extent ; but modern Spiritualism is a new 



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name for ancient witchcraft, as it was explained to me 
when my mind was so very active. The way I under- 
stood it, there are no spirits of the dead or living, outside 
of the parties that produce the phenomenon. Spiritualism 
and witchcraft were reduced to natural laws and were made 
very plain and simple, the way I understood it. There are 
persons of very sensitive and delicate organization, and 
very susceptible of magnetic influence and all other in- 
fluences. They have the power of going into this mag- 
netic sleep of their own will. There are others that are 
highly charged with magnetism ; they have a powerful 
will and great influence over certain persons, and can 
will certain persons into this magnetic sleep, if they are 
both in harmony. What is magnetism or mesmerism? 
It is supposed to be an agent of a mysterious nature — a. 
sister to electricity. What is the effect upon the mind 
and body? It is supposed to produce a species of sleep 
while the mind or intellectual powers are active and in- 
telligent. But such is not the fact, as shown to me. 
The mind is composed of different faculties. We 
often hear of persons being insane on some particular 
subject, while they are perfectly sane on all others. 
Now, when the person is magnetised or mesmerised, 
whether they will it themselves or are controlled by 
another, if they are thoroughly under the influence, the 
faculty of memory and recollection is gone ; they remem- 
ber nothing that transpires while they are under the in- 
fluence. So I say that one faculty is overpowered or 
paralyzed by the others — the weaker give up to the 
stronger — while the ear conveys the sound, and the voice 
gives answer in response, the memory, our great reason- 
ing faculty, is asleep, or takes no cognizance of what is 
transpiring. 

My readers, all of these real and true phenomena of so- 



18 THE NEW KEVELATION. 

called spiritualism are in harmony with certain organizations 
produced by one of the forces of nature controlled by the 
will ; no spirits about them, only what they contain within 
themselves, and it will be more fully demonstrated and 
proven in time. 

God does not suffer the spirits of the departed to 
enter men's brains and control their bodies ; if he does, 
who is responsible for our acts? No, my readers, I cannot 
believe any such nonsense of an All- wise Creator. 

Now we are coming to the dreams. On Sunday night 
I received these impressions, while apparently asleep : An 
old friend of mine appeared to me. He was then dead. 
When alive, he was one of Boston's worthy and most 
respected physicians, a wise and a very good man, living to 
a great age, and beloved by all who knew him. It was to 
his advice, while he was alive, that I am indebted in a great 
measure to the remarkable good health that I have enjoyed 
for the past thirty years, under such unfavorable circum- 
stances of close confinement and constant application to 
business. My old and esteemed friend, the Doctor, ap- 
peared to me Sunday night. "Ah!" he says, "you are 
very sick, but I have come to cure } r ou." And he gave 
me something like a powder and I took it, or appeared 
to. He says, "I knew that you were unwell." I asked 
him how he knew it. He says, "I knew it by your 
light, but, I did not know that }^ou were so very 
sick until Miss Fletcher came and said, ' Hurry, 
hurry, Doctor, and don't let the good man die/ ' He 
says, "No, you must not die, for }^ou have a work to 
do, and you must live to do it." And he told me some- 
thing about "Eighty" — either that I should live to 1880, 
or to be near eighty years old — I can not just remember 
how it was. 

The Miss Fletcher he spoke of was also dead. She 



THE NEW REVELATION. 19 

was an old lady when she died ; she was a patient of 
the Doctor's, and a patron of niine, and a very good, 
motherly lady to me. When the Doctor was about to go, 
he says, " Don't you want to go with me and see some of 
your old friends?" I answered "Yes." "Then," he says, 
" come !" and it seemed as though I came out of my body, 
or left it behind, and went with the Doctor to his home or 
stopping place. There I saw many that I had known, 
when they were alive in the flesh. They looked in the 
face very much the same as I had known them in life. 
There were old and young, but they were all dressed 
alike, with gray robes. I conversed with many ; they 
appeared free from all pain and trouble. It did not ap- 
pear to be their final home, but a kind of stopping-place 
or half way house. They appeared to be waiting for 
something, I went from place to place, it seemed, like 
different earths. All places seemed to be inhabited by 
men and women. I found some in each place that I had 
known before. I went to one sphere where there were 
no old people, but all were young and middle aged ; all 
were beautiful of form and feature, with the bloom of 
youth upon their cheeks. I was told that there was no 
death there. I said, "This is the place I have wished 
for, where I can always remain young." But as I saw 
more of them, and saw how wicked and depraved they 
were, bound up in their own lusts, with no fear of death 
or God before them, I said, " Let me go back to my old 
earth, Avhere I can grow old and die, which is far pre- 
ferable to living always with these beasts in human form." 
I went on to another sphere, and now what I am about 
to relate makes me almost hold my breath ! It was so 
real, it seemed, as though I were coming to Holy ground. 
But T must write, and you can read and judge for your- 
selves. God in His wisdom direct our minds. I saw 



20 THE NEW REVELATION. 

what appeared like unto a woman with a long white robe. 
Her face was like burnished silver, tinged with gold ; her 
whole being was purity. I thought she was once a mortal, 
and had lived upon this earth, and it seemed as though 
I had known her here. She talked to me like a person 
having knowledge and authority; and what she said was 
strongly impressed upon my memory. The knowledge 
she gave me I do not think was ever revealed to man 
before. It was. a knowledge that had never entered my 
mind, any part of it, or anything similar or appertaining 
to it. Now hear ye, all inhabitants of earth to the end 
of time. She says : 

"Here is where the books are kept." , 

I asked her what books? 

She said, "The judgment books." 

I said, " Do you mean to tell me the great book that 
God is to judge the people of the earth from is kept 
here?" 

She said, "No, but this is the place where each one 
keeps his own book, or record ; would you like to see 
your book?" 

I told her I would, and she handed me a small book 
in appearance. I opened it ; the leaves let down in folds 
like a map, and what did I behold ! Every act during my 
life, of memory, recorded in my own handwriting. 

"How came this in my own handwriting?" I asked. 

She said, "Every night while your body sleeps, you 
come and make a record of what you do while you are 
awake." 

I said, "Do you mean that I already have a spiritual 
body, and that it leaves my body of flesh when that body 
sleeps?" 

She said, "Yes, you have a .spiritual body, and while 
you sleep, the spiritual body is free, and conies here, as 



THE NEW REVELATION. 21 

you see, and you are your own judge," or something to 
that effect. 

Then she went on and told me that there were twelve 
planets belonging to this world, and that the earth I came 
from was one of them ; and she said that man was per- 
mitted to visit all the planets but one, but that one of the 
twelve no man was allowed to enter. 

I asked her the reason. 

She said it was because it ( was the habitation of the 
souls of men before they enter the brain of man. 

She described the soul as a perfect body as a child 
or part of God, and that it was a gift of God to man, 
but that it is so infinitely small that the mind of man 
cannot comprehend it, and tha,t no power ever invented 
by man can magnify it so that it can be seen by the 
human eye, and that it can live separate from the body 
of man, and that man is not necessary to its life or ex- 
istence, and that the body can live without the soul, and 
that the soul is not the life of the body. 

4 'How is that?" I asked. "I always thought that 
the soul was the very life of man." 

She said, "That is where men have made a great 
mistake ; the life of the body and soul are very differ- 
ent, and one is not dependent upon the other for its ex- 
istence." 

I told her I did not understand it — to explain it 
to me. 

She said, " Look at the beasts ! They live, and they 
have the spirit of life, but no soul." 

She says, "You see that the soul is not necessary 
for the life of the beast — no more is it necessary to the 
life of man, only for man's eternal life." 

Then she told me that the location of the soul in man 
was in the brain. And she showed me the brain of man, 



22 THE NEW REVELATION. 

showing me its exact and perfect formation, with its three 
lobes. And she showed me the location of the soul — it 
was near the end of the middle lobe. 

I Avould state here, that, before this, I had not the 
least idea about the formation of the brain, not having 
read or heard a word about its formation. But a num- 
ber of physicians have told me since that my description 
of the three lobes of the brain is perfect. 

And she told me that every soul had its mission, and 
that it was for some particular hody, and for no other. 

She says, "Every soul, before it enters the brain 
of man, when it leaves its sphere or habitation, is accom- 
panied by two other souls, and that these two remained 
with it as long as the soul remains in the brain, and re- 
turns it safely to its destination, after it leaves the 
brain." 

I asked why two souls should attend the one? 

She said, " To watch over it, and protect it, and 
minister unto it, and keep it from being lost." 

I asked, if one soul should happen to be lost, what 
would be the consequence ? 

She said that, " It would have to be found ; that all 
the souls would have to hunt for the lost soul until it 
was found." 

I asked if one soul was of so much importance ? 

She said, "It is!" 

But now hear what she says : 

When I think it over in my mind, I am led to say, 
Wonderful ! Wonderful ! And how marvelous ! 

But how reasonable ! I exclaimed. I have found the 
lost link that binds man to God and to eternity. All 
praise to our Heavenly Father for revealing this knowl- 
edge unto us. 



THE NEW REVELATION. 23 

She said, "Look! See those lights surrounding the 
good people of the earth !" 

And she pointed to many persons that I knew, and 
believed to be good. 

I saw a bright, white, beautiful mist surrounding the 
living people that were good; some lights were dim, some 
bright, others were very bright. 

She says, " This light which you see, is the new birth, 
the new and eternal body begotten by the spirit and power 
of God, and born of the spirit of the flesh. 

"When the body and the spirit of man are in harmony 
and controlled by the soul and being begotton by the spirit 
of Grod, it is eternal ;" and she says, "every good work, every 
good word, and every good thought adds to the brilliancy 
of that light." 

Then how necessary to have pure thoughts. 

She says, "Look, see your own light; that is you, 
Nehemiah Kenison, your new body, that shall live after 
death in connection with your soul and spirit ; and she 
said that those lights were all numbered. 

She told me other things concerning marriages and 
births — that there were certain influences, beyond the con- 
trol of man, that brought men and women together in holy 
wedlock, and that in the birth and life of the body of 
man there was a union of forces beyond the reason of man 
to understand. 

She said every soul was for a particular body, and 
could come through no other, and that there were only 
two persons on the whole earth whereby that particular 
bodv could be born. So we can believe that marriages are 
ordained in Heaven. 

If husband and wife could see and have it explained 
to them as I hacl it shown to me, there would be much 
more happiness in the married life. All unmarried men, 



24 THE NEW REVELATION. 

when they are of proper age, and circumstances will ad- 
mit, should seek out a companion for life — a wife, asking 
God to direct them in their selection. 

When I awoke I had perfect confidence that I should 
regain my health again, because I had seen my old friend, 
the doctor, and he had given me the medicine and told 
me that it would cure me. 

This is only one of a number of dreams, but it is the 
one that was the most vividly impressed on my mind. 

If I could have written this book when my brain was 
so very active, I think I could have used arguments to con- 
vince the most skeptical of its truthfulness. 

It Avas no trouble or effort, then, for me to explain 
and understand it ; and many other things that I did not 
understand before weie made very plain. For instance, 
concerning the birth and happiness of infants when they 
die young ; and concerning the birth and death of our 
Savior. These things were all made so plain and rea- 
sonable that I can not help believing that the revelations 
and explanations are truths. After the swelling in my 
head went away, and my brain came to its natural state, 
the impressions were more dim ; and I know that my 
memory has not been so good since as it was before. 
Now after, a lapse of nearly ten years I retain in my 
mind only those parts that made the deepest impressions 
upon my memory. I wish all to understand the mean- 
ing of this dream as I did at the time. I cannot find 
language to express or explain the mealiing the way that 
it was shown to me ; so I can only give you a brief 
sketch, hoping that your superior mind will fill up the 
deficiencies. I understand it something in this way : 
That God has given unto eveiy human being a soul or 
an angel of mercy — a part of Heaven — something that is 
better, wiser and purer than the earth part of man ; a 



THE NEW REVELATION. 25 

part that is everlasting and eternal ; and that it is a 
perfect body within itself ; its location in man is in 
the brain ; and it is in the brain for the good of man, 
to direct him through life in happiness ; it is the link 
whereby man can approach God in prayer ; Christ ha* 
made our lives eternal ; but the soul purifies that life 
and helps to form the pure and perfect body. But as the 
soul is not the life of the body, or the will, or the spirit of 
either, it has no power over the body, except to point out 
the right way, unless the will or spirit of man is given up 
to its teachings, and thereby makes the connection- 
The soul is the silent voice that is directing us to do 
good, and carrying our thoughts to something better and 
higher than man. It is when we heed this voice and give 
entirely up to it in faith that Ave make the connec- 
tion with our soul and our God. It is when we implicit- 
ly obey these inborn promptings, that our spirits and 
bodies are purified from sin, and born anew by the holy, 
magnetic influence of the soul, which now controls the 
will. It is then that the body is in harmony with God 
and obeys His holy law, and is guided to goodness, 
truth and purity. It is then that good acts, kind words 
and pure thoughts are begotten by the soul or spirit of 
God, and born of the flesh or spirit of man ; and we are 
filled with love to God and all His works. It is then our 
bodies or spirits give out the purified essence of the 
mind — holy thoughts that shine so beautifully bright 
around the living good — that pure, bright and good part 
that I was told should exist as the body in connec- 
tion with the soul and spirit, after our earthly body returned 
to dust. How important that we make the connection, and 
obey the still, small voice, that is directing to eternal 
happiness ! 

I will now relate another interestino; dream I had the 



26 THE NEW REVELATION. 

next night (Monday night.) It is in connection with an 
old friend of mine: We will call him Mr. J. He was 
then dead; I do not say that Mr. J. came to me in this 
dream, but I do say that I believe his spirtit came as 
described, and that my brain was in that condition that 
he could impart intelligence to me ; but I wish all to 
judge for themselves ; use your own reason and pray for 
more light from God. Mr. J. seemed to come to me in 
my own room as I lay in bed asleep. He first spoke to 
me and said : ' ' Kenison , you are no better than you 
ought to be." I recognized his voice and spoke to him, 
calling him by his full name, telling him that I knew 
he was present, although I could not see him. He 
said: " I know that you cannot see me, because I have 
not the spiritual body like some men." I asked him the 
reason of his not having the body. He said: " Be- 
cause, when I was in the flesh I was a bad man." 
I told him I had no thought that he was a bad 
man. He said: "I was, and have no body like the good 
that die in the Lord ; the reason is, because I did not make 
it when I had an opportunity." I asked him what he was 
like, if he had any body at all. He said he had 
a perfect form, but was so very small that he could not 
make himself visible. I said : " Tell me what you are like 
and how large are you?" He said : "I am so small that I 
could dance on the point of a cambric needle, and two 
millions like me would not fill a common-sized thimble. 
I have a form or body ; I know and understand mor£ 
than I did when I was in the flesh ; I can move about 
with ease from place to place, and see and know men 
and things, and am very sensitive to sound. Any one 
calling me by my full name, especially from a high em- 
inence, I am most sure to hear them." I asked him how 
he passed his time, what he did and how he was em- 



THE NEW REVELATION. 27 

ployed. He said: "I am interested in the same 
business that I used to be when I was in the flesh." (I 
knew that he used to be interested in business in the 
State of Kentucky.) He said he went to Kentucky 
most every day, and that he also went about in Boston 
among his old acquaintances to their places of business, 
and if they were doing well and making money he was 
as pleased as he was when in the flesh. He said 
he went to see his wife most every day, and he thought he 
enjoyed himself very well. His wife was alive and lived 
near Boston. I says tell me how you move from place 
to place, over so many miles, when you are so very small. 
"Well," he says, "I go through the air, and go very swift." 
" What," says I, " right through the air like lightning wher- 
ever you please ? " " Oh, no," he says, ' ' we have roads in the 
air, and we have to keep in the roads." There was 
another gentleman, a friend of mine and a friend of Mr. 
J.'s. We will call his name Mr. B. Mr. J. and Mr. B. 
were both engaged in the same business ; they both occu- 
pied desks in the same rooms in Boston when they were 
alive. Mr. B. was also dead. I asked J. where B. was. 
He said : " He is where I am, or makes it his home Avhere I 
do." I told him that I thought B. was a good man; he 
used to go regular to church. "Oh, well," he said, "I 
know he used to attend church, but he was a bad man, 
and has not the new body any more than I have." I 
then asked J. if B. visited his old friends the same as 
he did. "Well," he said, " B. went with me once, but 
you know what kind of a man B. was ; he is just as lazy 
as ever." 

B. was a large fleshy man, and had the name of being 
lazy. 

I asked J. where he lived or made his home. 



28 THE NEW REVELATON. 

He said, " In the air, or above earth from five to 
twenty miles — sometimes more, sometimes less." 

I asked him if it was his permanent place of abode or 
home. 

He said, " No ; that it was not, and he did not know 
how long they would be obliged to stay there. But they 
were waiting for the Great Day ! " 

" What great day?" I asked. 

44 The Day of Judgment," he says. 

" Then," I says, " there is to be a day of judgment, 
and no mistake." 

"Yes," he says, "that is what every one says, and 
what we expect, and what we are waiting for." 

I made inquiries concerning many things, business, 
etc. I asked him if he had the power to assist me or 
any one in business. 

He said he couid sometimes ; but he had to obey 
certain laws, and could not always assist those that he 
wished. 

Now, this is the last of the dreams. I wish you all 
to read them carefully and prayerfully. The more you 
think and read them, the brighter and clearer they will 
open up to your mind. 

I wish to say a few words relating to our Savior, 
the way I understood it when my mind was in that con- 
dition that I could reason better than I could before or 
since, and things were made plain to me. 

This is no dream. But I reason in this wise : That 
God had made man perfect in form and life, and that 
life was eternal in the form of man, if he obeyed certain 
laws ; but He made man a free, moral agent. If He had 
not, there would have been no need of law. Man dis- 
obeyed God's law and brought death to himself and to 
all his posterity. In that death there is something more 



THE NEW REVELATION. 29 

terrible than we usually realize. It was not only the death 
of the body, but it was eternal death. Those forces that 
God had brought together in the life and body of man 
in His own likeness, had disobeyed Him, and forfeited 
his right to eternal life. Death came to all men, and 
in that death eternal life in the form of man was blotted 
out ; man lost his identity. 

Now it would seem that it was necessary for God to 
redeem these scattered forces that He had made for the 
benefit of man, and that there was but one way ; that 
was to send His son to take the form of man, and to re- 
deem that life and form and give it indentity and eternal 
life. 

Abraham found favor in the eyes of God, and God 
made a covenant with him that in his seed all the nations 
of the earth should be blessed. 

How beautiful to trace the growth of this seed as it 
unfolds and gathers strength, as the forces of nature are 
controlled by the wisdom and intelligence of God, and 
manifested in His favored people, the Jews ; and in the 
birth of our Savior we have the most sublime and nias>- 
nificent study of nature and God. I wish that all could 
see and understand as I do. 

In the birth of our Savior we see the fruits of Heaven 
and earth united in perfection. 

In the death and resurrection of our Savior, we see 
life redeemed in the form of man ; life is made eternal ; 
the original sin has been wiped out by the death of Him 
who had the power to lay down His life and take it 
again. 

My dear readers, we don't half understand these 
wonderful blessings to us in the birth, death and resur- 
rection of our Savior. 

We now have a chance of immortality. God has re- 



30 THE NEW REVELATION. 

moved the barriers to eternal life in the birth, death and 
resurrection of His son in the form of man. It was the 
only way to be done. "God so loved the world that He 
gave His only begotten son that whosoever believed on Him 
should not perish, but should have eternal life." 

Yes, my friends, I believe that our Savior done all 
the mighty miracles that are recorded of Him and many 
more ; that the half was never told. All power was given 
Him ; the winds and waters obeyed Him, and millions of 
intelligencies waited upon Him. 

In our Savior we believe Heaven came to earth ; im- 
mortality took the form of man, was clothed with flesh, 
eat, drank, slept and died. But He arose again ; He took 
the life and form of man again that we might live in eter- 
nity with Him. 

I call Him our Savior, because I believe it is through 
His death and resurrection that we are saved from our 
sins and made immortal. I believe that He sends the soul, 
the immortal part, to every human being that we may be 
directed and helped to prepare that beautiful body that 
shall dwell with Him forever. 

I believe that all beasts and all forms that have life 
lower than man, go back to their original forces, 
at death ; but that all life and knowledge in the 
form of man is now made eternal by the birth, death and 
resurrection of our Savior. If we obey the teachings of 
our soul and live in harmoiry with our Savior, doing 
what we believe to be right and just, we shall in- 
herit the immortal and individual body, we shall be 
known to one another, and enter into our joys, and en- 
joy the fruits of our labor immediately after crossing 
the river of death 

But what shall I write of those like Mr. J., they 
that have not made the good and perfect body in this 



THE NEW REVELATION. 31 

life, because they were bad? I will say my dear readers, 
I believe that Christ died for all such, that we are all 
eternal now, Ave cannot get away from it. But those 
that are not clothed with the garments of righteousness 
will have to stand forth in their sins in that great day 
that God has appointed to judge the nations of the earth. 
But we all have one consolation, we know we have a 
righteous judge, we shall all receive our just reward 
whatever our sentence is, we shall say, Amen. 

But let us be sure to be on the right side ; begin now 
to try and improve and do better. JSFoio is the glorious 
word. 

I will now write a few lines relating to children that 
die young, as was shown to me when my brain was in that 
active condition. 

In the birth of the infant, we believe that the forces 
of nature have come together and taken the most perfect 
and highest form of the earth ; that all nature has per- 
fected herself in the body and life of the infant, and that 
it is born in purity ; ' man shows wisdom in all his parts 
beyond all other formations of life. 

I believe that all these forces of nature were created 
by an all- wise God for the very purpose of creating man, 
and that they are all good, and that all lesser and inferior 
forms of life are for the benefit and development of man. 

When we realize and partially understand all these 
blessings, our minds and voices should be tuned in harmony 
with prayer and praise to our great Creator. 

The child is not responsible for its birth ; neither is 
the young child accountable for its acts. It does not 
know right from Avrong. The will has not taken posses- 
sion of the body ; if it has, it is passive. We believe 
that the young child is nature in purity and perfection, 
and without sin. But I think I hear you say, "Where 



32 THE NEW REVELATON. 

are the good works, the good acts, the good thoughts 
that are to create the body that is to live with God in 
eternity?" 

Wait a minute; don't jump at conclusions quite so 
suddenly ; let us examine this life carefully. Were .we 
not told that there was no hazard or chance about the 
birth of children, but that every soul was for a certain 
and particular body, and that every human body or babe 
was for a certain and particular soul? Now as the soul 
comes from heaven in all its purity to the brain of the 
young child, that child being the embodiment of the forces 
of nature in all their purity, and free from sin — the soul 
being eternal and the body passive — in case of death be- 
fore the child commits sin, I believe the life of that 
child by its purity and connection with the soul forms the 
new spiritual body. That spiritual body becomes eternal, 
and is an angel with God in heaven that never knew sin ; 
our Savior having already atoned for the original sin. 

Our Savior says, " Suffer little children to come unto 
me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of 
Heaven . ' ' 

Mothers take courage, try to be reconciled to the 
providences of God for the loss of your littl e ones. Try 
to be devoted to Him who doeth all things well, and } r ou 
will meet your babes again, just across the river, more 
sweet and lovely than ever, never to part with them again. 
Parents be faithful to your charge ; let father and 
mother and each child be united to make home pleasant ' 
and one another happy. 

I wish to say a few words about different sects or 
denominations ; I know that this is a very sensitive subject. 
What I say is more for the benefit of those who do not 
belong to any church. I do not intend to hurt the feel- 



THE NEW REVELATION. 33 

ings of any one ; should I do so, please be a little charita- 
ble towards me. 

Most persons, whether they belong to any church or 
not, have some preference for some church or faith. I 
have, and I think it is right and natural. It shows 
a man of some religious principle ; a reverence for God 
and His people. We must have charity for others, and 
not think, because we are right, that every one who dif- 
fers with us in belief is wrong. Both may be right. We 
are differently educated and cannot all think alike. " What 
is meat for one is poison for another." And again, "By 
their fruits, ye shall know them." So have charity. 

I believe there are good men and women everywhere, 
in all the walks of life. I often see good traits crop 
out where I least expected them, and it only wanted a 
little encouragement and directing to brin^ forth golden 
fruit. I think there are thousands of good Christians 
that never have made a public profession, or joined any 
church. But I believe that those same people would lead 
happier lives, and do more good in the world, if they 
would join the church that they feel the most at home 
with — first going to their pastor, or some Christian friend, 
and talking the matter over ; they will direct you in the 
happy way. Bind yourselves together as a band of 
brothers and sisters, as children of the same Father. 
It will keep us from temptation, and we shall be a help 
to one another, and our influence in our daily lives will 
speak volumes for the benefit of those that we are brought 
in contact with. Then our Savior promises, "Where two 
or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in 
the midst of them." 

Yes, my dear readers, there are good and devoted 
Christians in all churches, and in all denominations. I 



34 THE NEW EEVELATION. 

look upon them all as branches of the same tree, rooted 
and grounded in our Savior and our God. 

My dear readers, let us obey the teachings of our 
soul ; let us join some church or denomination that we are 
in sympathy with, that we may bring forth more and better 
fruit for our own happiness, and the benefit of those 
around us ; and that we may make a more perfect body 
for the glorification of our Father in the world to come. 

My beloved readers, don't be discouraged or lose 
your confidence in Christianity or faith in God, because 
you see wickedness prospering in the land and walking 
boldly in high places, but remember that it was always 
so from the beainnino: — the tares and wheat are to grow 
together. There was a Judas among " The Twelve;" 
money has not lost its power. We cannot change the 
forces of nature, but we can pray that God will help to 
direct those forces, while we apply our minds and bodies 
with energy and industry for the accomplishment of good. 

I wish to say a little more about the dreams, to 
make it plainer, if I can. My great aim in life is to do 
good. I hope to give truth with reason, so all may be 
benefited. I realize my responsibility. I believe in a Day 
of Judgment, that I shall have to give an account for 
every word that I write in this book. 

You must remember that I am not educated, and have 
not studied books, and make no claim to superior knowl- 
edge or deep thought. But that this intelligence came to 
me like a beautiful ray of sunshine to a cloudy and dreary 
day, without any effort on my part except prayer and 
faith in God. So now I hope to be directed by the Spirit 
of God — the soul — which I believe can direct our minds 
aright, if our will is entirely given up to God. 

In the first place, I believe that the brain was brought 
to that condition to receive those impressions in answer 



THE NEW REVELATION. 35 

to prayer. I believe that there was an immediate cause 
for the inflammation and swelling. 

As I said before, I believe in cause and effect ; that 
there always is a cause for an effect, although we may 
hot be able to trace it. I am inclined to the belief that 
the direct cause of the swelling of my head and brain, 
was the breathing in of a poison from some sore foot, 
when the throat was in the right condition to receive the 
virus. As I frequently operated on sore and festered 
nails, corns, etc., medical men will understand these 
things better than I do. 

I have already given a description of the soul and 
its mission, as I understood it. But as I consider the 
soul and its mission the most important part of this 
work, I will try to make it a little more plain. 

According to the description that I received of the 
soul, it appears that there is a good part in every human 
being, a soul ; and that the soul has a body and an 
existence before the birth of the earthly body, and 
that it leaves its habitation in heaven and comes to earth, 
and enters the brain of man, for his benefit and good. 
In this life it is directing man every step to wisdom, 
good deeds and happiness. And it is through the soul 
that we can come to God with all our joys and sorrows 
in prayer, and can be directed and guided all through 
life. And if we do act in harmony with the soul, to the 
best of our ability, then we are giving out that luminous 
light that I was told was eternal, and would live in 
happiness after the death of our earthly body. 

Now, what about Mr. J.? What part of the man 
was it that gave me such minute and wonderful infor- 
ation about himself? I am not able to decide in my 
mind as clearly as I could wish. I will give you my 



36 THE NEW REVELATION. 

opinion. I may not be right, so, I hope you will all 
judge for yourselves. 

It would seem to compare with the soul in size, 
intelligence, etc. But I cannot reconcile the soul, the 
pure and good pp't, as the intelligence that represented 
Mr. J. I believe that the soul with its two attendant 
souls has returned in purity to God that gave it 

It looks more reasonable to me that the part which 
conversed with me, is the will or intelligence, not the 
life of the body, but the part that controls that life. I 
do not think the soul takes such a livery interest in the 
money-making affairs of the living. Neither do I think 
that it looks reasonable that the soul is lazy. It would 
seem to partake more of the will, or spirit that controls 
the body. I was shown that the soul only pointed the 
way, and did not control the body, without the will or 
intelligence was entirely given up to the soul, and was 
willing to be directed and guided by it. But it is not of 
so much importance for us to know whether it was Mr. 
J.'s will or soul that gave me the information, as it is 
for us to know that he did not have the new body that 
those have who die in the Lord. Mr. J. acknowledged the 
reason that he could not make himself visible was because 
he was a bad man and did not make the new body. It 
shows to us if we wish to have that pure and good body, 
we must be born anew of the spirit of God ; put our 
faith and trust in God, believing that he doeth all things 
well. Many things may look dark to us, and hard to 
reconcile with the goodness and wisdom of our Heavenly 
Father. But if we are his children, we should have 
perfect faith that all is for our benefit either in this life 
or the life to come. Our troubles are for our good and 
to help us prepare the eternal body, that shall exist in 
harmony and glory, with our Savior and our God. My 



THE NEW REVELATON. 37 

dear readers, if we wish the new body, we must have 
the new birth. And I believe that it is not enough to 
be born of the spirit of God to-day, but we must be 
guided by the soul in prayer, to-morrow, and next day, 
and all the days of our lives, and be diligent in good 
works, good words and good thoughts, if we would have 
that body in perfection. If We do not have the pure 
and immortal body, we shall say as Mr. J. did that we did 
not make it while we had time and opportunity. 

I believe that there are three distinct parts belong- 
ing to man, and when they all act together in harmony, 
they make the perfect and eternal man. The soul, or 
good part that is eternal, belongs to heaven, and which 
is located in the brain, is the first part. The intelligence 
or will, which controls the body, also located in the 
brain, — I believe this spirit or intelligence is high in 
authority, and a free agent to do and act its own 
pleasure, and is accountable to none but God, — is of 
this earth, and is number two. The body, which is 
"fearfully and wonderfully made," all the forces of 
nature being brought together in perfection, in its form 
and life, — the earth, sun and all the planets are repre- 
sented in man, — and we call the body and life, number three. 

There is much to be thought of in connection with 
the body and its formation. The brain, the seat of the 
soul, also the location of the will or intelligence, as re- 
presented by Mr. J. The body, which is controlled by 
the will or intelligence, and gives expression in acts, 
speech and thought. Also, the life of the body, which 
is in the blood. Here is much thought that is too deep 
for me. But I have .faith that God will direct men with 
more intelligence and more education, who will be able 
to pick up ray little threads and weave a beautiful gar- 
ment, perfect in all its parts. 



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THE NEW KEVELATION. 



We can all understand the connection of the soul 
with the body through the will; that is, when the will 
gives up to the soul, and is willing to act and be con- 
trolled by it — a better and higher intelligence. Then our 
bodies give expression in good works, good speech and 
good thoughts. When the will becomes humble in 
prayer, and acts in faith and harmony with the soul, 
then we make the connection with our soul, and through 
our soul, with our Savior and our God. Then we are in 
communication with the living God, the greatest of the 
Great, the highest of the High. It is then our will 
and our bodies are purified, and our sins are forgiven ; 
and, just as long as we obey the teachings of the soul, 
we are filled with love to God, and all His works. It is 
then we are preparing that ]Aire body that we shall 
dwell in after this tenement of flesh goes to decay. 

My kind readers, pray truly and earnestly ; try it 
for yourselves ; for no tongue or pen can describe the 
real happiness of true prayer. With all my reading of the 
Bible, I could not understand the new birth, and being 
"born again." But I prayed earnestly for } r ears, for 
more light and knowledge. God, in His mercy, answered 
my prayer, and made it all very plain to my benighted 
mind. I believe anything that we need, we should go to 
God for it in prayer, as we would to a kind parent. If 
we go to Him humbly, He will hear our petitions, and He 
will answer in good time, if it is for our happiness in 
this life and the life to come. Have faith in God, "He 
doeth all things well." Don't fold your hands and think 
you have nothing to do but pray ; but exert your mind 
and body with diligence and perseverance. Have faith 
that God will guide you to accomplish your purpose if 
it is right. Be determined to live a life of prayer, that 
your days may be made happy. Whatever you do, ask 



THE NEW REVELATION. 39 

God to prosper the works of your hands, that good may 
come from your labors. Whatever you read, Bible or 
newspaper, ask God to direct your minds, that you may 
understand and be benefited. Wherever you go, to church, 
or theater, or anywhere else, ask God to go along with 
you, and go with a prayer that you may receive good, 
and be made better. Thus, all through life, at every step, 
ask God for help and to direct you in the right way. 
Then put on the steam, and exert your minds and bodies 
determinedly for good. 

I might go on and write a hundred pages, giving my 
opinion about man, beasts, and vegetables, and everything 
that has life ; showing wherever life takes form, there 
we find intelligence, showing a wise Creator, and some- 
thing to admire. But I leave these things for wiser and 
better men. 

Now my dear young friends, I wish to give you a few 
words of advice. My heart loves you, and would shield 
you from trouble and pain, and see you healthy and happy. 
Pray in your youth to be kept from intoxicating liquors, 
from tobacco and games of chance. 

How many youth thoughtlessly bind themselves to 
bad and injurious habits that enslave them all through 
life. Go to God daily in prayer. He can keep you from 
all bad habits, temptation and sin. He is the source of 
all knowledge and power. He can help you and He will, 
if you ask Him. Pray that your bodies may be a fit 
temple for the Spirit of God to dwell in. 

How healthy and happy the most of us would be if 
we began in youth to obey the voice that is directing us 
aright. We need spiritual food foi our spiritual growth and 
development, as much as we require proper food for the 
development of our natural bodies. Then let us %egin in 
youth to pray, to read our Bible and good books, to 



40 THE NEW REVELATION. 

attend church, and keep good company. Prayer is to 
man what the sun is to vegetation. It unfolds and 
beautifies us in this life, and ripens us for Heaven. It 
is almost as natural for a truly good person to pray, as 
it is for a man to partake of food when he is hungry. 

Now, my very kind readers, I hope every one has 
received some lasting benefit by the perusal of this book. 
I also hope to meet you all in that happy land beyond 
the grave ; and if we have the pure body, we shall come 
together as children of one family, to give thanks and 
sing praises to our Heavenly Father ever more. 

May God bless you, and help you to form the pure 
and immortal body, is the prayer of your friend, 

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